Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

["Michael Glauche" <mg plum de>]

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>| [1] Bertrand has been working in such a beast, perhaps we can reuse
>|    some of his code.  I am just a bit concerned that the
>|    implementation is in Objective-C, which means that people need an
>|    objective-c compiler on their system to compile it.
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>I share your concern. On other systems than Linux, the vendor's compiler
>usually is the best, but they often does not support Objective-C.
>This probably means that you have to use egcs, which is not always a
>good thing.
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>This mail client will certainly become one of the most important Gnome
>applications. Therefore it is vital that it compiles easily on as many
>platforms as possible.


How about taking his API and coding it in C ?
The API for balsa is in designing stage for > 3 Months now ... a nice API
would
be a good start ...

regards,
   Michael